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I wish they would re-enact their childhood the way normal people do: buy collector’s edition comic books, get some audio cassettes from a flea market, watch a ridiculous 80’s action flick.

But no.

Everyone has to be hurt when those duckfuckers spiral.

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“Conservatism is the desire to be a child.”
🤯
brats.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic When John Oliver was on #TheDailyShow, he did a segment on this called “Better Than the Real Thing,” no longer online unfortunately

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It’s almost like that guy has a way with words.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic can I have this on a t-shirt?

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic that fits with Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

Essentially they want the law to be a parent which protects only them with no responsibility to follow it, much like a spoiled child.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic Or the desire to make things simple (which would theoretically possible).

But for some weird reason conservatives deny doing that very thing.

@AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca @pluralistic@mamot.fr Good news! Anyone can become a child by struggling with math!
https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/cause-and-effect/

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic Also the desire to be racist/misogynist/queerphobic openly, with no consequences.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic that simple lifestyle of cons/tories can be found everywhere. I have someone at work, who asked this question when I raised the issues with P25: « what is wrong about supporting families? » or « People do not want kids anymore. » or « Corona hysteria »… They never scratch into the surface. They never think not everyone can be dya cis hetero. They can’t fathom that people can’t afford kids anymore. Or that Corona ruins lifes. They want simpler times back.

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People hostile to a set of beliefs are rarely the best ones to explain those beliefs.

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That is part of the psychology of George Lakoff's Strict Father/Nurturant Parent models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_father_model

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This is the kind of conversational Molotov I like to throw on Nextdoor for special occasions.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic thanks! I didn't realize that I wasn't following him on this account until this post.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic @benroyce That's hardly fair. Plenty of us want to be children, but we're self-aware of that and don't make it other people's problem! 😂

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic Yet, somehow, those wannabe children make a shit-ton of money, which buys them power, while the rest of us, trying our best to be adults, struggle. Remarkable, that.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic yeah, simple.
My grandmother was a full time bookkeeper, raised four kids, did ALL the housework and cooking, couldn’t have a bank account or get a loan because she was a woman .
Simple times if you were a man and by god dinner better be on the table on time and your clothes pressed and shut your mouth about fishing weekends and poker games.

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reminds me of
Ned Flanders : I wish we lived in a place more like the America of yesteryear that only exists in the brains of us Republicans.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic YES - I have been saying this since w bush and his compassionate conservatism election schtick

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic also, we’re further down the slope to climate collapse…of course things are more complex now :D

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic That's an incredibly insightful take. Never thought of it that way before, but he's right.

@AlisonCreekside @pluralistic I would say this is too simplistic. When I consider my parents who got old and then they were confronted with say "THE INTERNET", they basically ignored it for 20 years. Then my mother told herself for 5 years that she is too stupid for it and now did some first steps in using WhatsApp.

And this is how conservatism plays out even to the point that "the internet" is never touched at all to stay at this example.

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Conversely, it is a pathology of liberalism to use memes like this to suggest that nothing ever actually changes, which is anti-evolutionary despite having some psychology. 😇